This week on Inside Appalachia, we speak with an author about grief rituals, a podcaster about the religious music of snake handling churches, and we explore best practices to prepare for retirement.
Recently I’ve been exploring the question: When we read the Bible, what are we looking for? One angle is that we’re looking for guidance. Another is When we read the Bible, at our best, we’re looking for love and justice.
Rachel Held Evans is known for her liberated theological beliefs, so when I stumbled upon A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master buried deep on a bookshelf at my home, I was intrigued. The subtitle is especially eye-catching because […]